Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.

What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

I'll fight anybody who grabs the rope to hang themselves.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

All is foreseen but the choice is given.

Everyone needs someone to believe in.

Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

There has been one defining production for me in each decade.

Nothing comes easy when I'm in character, because everything I do in character, I take seriously.